Letters to the editor for December 29, 2017

Friday

Politicians and harassment, the selling of America and Americans first

Politicians and harassment

Maybe I am missing something, but for the life of me I don’t understand why the timing by a politician sexually harassing a woman is more important than the violation of the woman.

By that I mean, if the politician is a candidate and the voters, who were not the ones being violated, knowing of the sexual harassment, elect the politician, it is okay. But if the same parties and same violation occur after the politician is elected, the politician must resign.

Do you think the woman being violated thinks the timing makes the violation any less important? Can we really justify politics over morality?

In the same vein, I don’t understand why if a politician admits the wrongdoing, the politician must resign. But if the politician denies the accusations, that ends the matter. That seems to me to be a great incentive for a politician to lie about the charges, since there seems to be no consequences. Shouldn’t there be a hearing on the charges with both sides being heard and judged by an independent tribunal like the Inspector General rather than by a panel of the politician’s peers. Only a jury should be made of one’s peers, not the judges.

Like I said maybe I am missing something, what do you think?

Robert A. Bella, Dunnellon

The selling of America

The corporations have taken over the United States of America with the approval of 35 percent of the voting public. It is hard to believe that the leader of the free world has become the dictator of the free world because of the support he receives from the corporate-owned members of the House of Representatives, the United States Senate and the Supreme Court. All of these people seem to have lifetime appointments to these positions.

This same leader has claimed that the economy is better than ever because of the stock market reaching new highs, setting records on a daily basis. These Americans are celebrating their new riches for their families, especially the majority of families in the $50,000 to $60,000 bracket who never thought themselves to be wealthy. Oh wait a minute, those families don’t earn enough to invest in the stock market when they have to spend every dollar they earn to provide food and housing for their families. Maybe the leader of the free world doesn’t realize that the only people making money in the stock market are the rich and corporations who put him in office.

This leader and his 35 percent supporters also believe that our future energy supplies lie in the coal industry where there is a growing number of miners who are enjoying the wonderful lives that this industry affords them. Another group of supporters who supply energy to our great country are the wonderful oil workers who are making Alaska and the once beautiful Gulf of Mexico our next supplier of energy. Never mind solar, wind and the tides coming almost free to our shores, because they only help our country and very little profit to our leaders supporters.

I am not going to name the people who this letter is about but maybe you can guess who they are by their actions.

Jerry Segovis, Ocala

Americans first

There is one thing that distresses me and makes me mad to no end: This mental sickness and love affair with felon illegal aliens.

We have U.S. citizens living on the streets with no food and shelter, and many are veterans who could not find a job and lost whatever they had. They have through their working years paid into Social Security and Medicare. They can’t get benefits because they have no mailing address or phone.

Wake up America. U.S. citizens first. Not foreign felons first. The U.S. government is made up of a bunch of thieves. If they can’t live on hamburger wages, they can go home.

Vernon Page, Ocala

The GOP’s man

To be clear, Robert Mueller was the FBI director for 12 Years, 10 under Bush, and is a Republican. He was appointed by a Republican deputy attorney general serving Republican Attorney General Jeff Session when the Republican President fired his Republican FBI Director James Comey.

With all the Fox News shrieking cries of “corruption and Trump bias,” you’d think there would be some Democrats involved. Sheesh!

William Hamm, Leesburg

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